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1986
The U.S. Post Office issues a commemorative stamp featuring Sojourner Truth.
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1980
Syria withdraws its peacekeeping force in Beirut.
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1974
Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, beginning one of the most bizarre cases in FBI history.
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1966
Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins televised hearings on the Vietnam War.
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1947
Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H.W. Bush.
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1945
The Big Three, American, British and Soviet leaders, meet in Yalta to discuss the war aims.
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1944
The Japanese attack the Indian Seventh Army in Burma.
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1941
The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries.
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1932
Robert Coover, novelist & short story writer.
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Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurates the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y.
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1925
Russell Hoban, artist and writer (Bedtime for Frances, The Mouse and His Child).
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1923
French troops take the territories of Offenburg, Appenweier and Buhl in the Ruhr as a part of the agreement ending World War I.
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1921
Betty Friedan, writer, feminist, founded the National Organization of Women in 1966.
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1915
Germany decrees British waters as part of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without warning.
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1913
Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist.